Israeli forces arrest Palestinian patient in West Bank hospital raid
The Palestinian Health Ministry in the occupied West Bank said Israeli forces raided a hospital in Nablus and arrested a patient.
The ministry in a statement called it “a flagrant violation of all international laws and conventions that stipulate the protection of treatment centres and patients”.
Earlier, Palestinian media reported that special forces from the Israeli army stormed the Arab Specialized Hospital and arrested Ayman Ghanem, who was wounded in a bombing near the town of Aqqaba on Tuesday.
Israel says Palestinian man detained from hospital was behind a gun attack in August
The Israeli military says the Palestinian man who was arrested during a raid on a hospital in the occupied West Bank had been involved in a deadly shooting in the Jordan Valley in August. The military identified the Palestinian as Ayman Ghanem.
It said he had been the third member of a Hamas cell that carried out the shooting on August 11 at the Mehola Junction. A 23-year-old Israeli man who had been discharged from the Israeli military after taking part in the war on Gaza had been killed in the shooting, according to media reports.
The military said Ghanem had been taken to hospital on Wednesday after being wounded in an Israeli drone attack on the West Bank village of Aqqaba. Three Palestinians were killed in that attack.
A Palestinian family’s olive harvest
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Six-year-old Nasser Tanatra is scared of the rock-strewn hilltop where he used to play and pick flowers near his family home.
The boisterous child, the youngest of seven siblings, used to dash to the top of Jabal al-Ras with his 10-year-old sister Urood to gather wild sage and zaatar.
But in mid-September, about 20 Israeli settlers, protected by soldiers, erected tents and began living on the hilltop, about 50 metres (164ft) from the family’s two-storey home.
Ever since, they have attacked and harassed the Tanatras and their neighbours in the Palestinian village of Umm Safa. At night, the settlers fire bullets in the air and release aggressive dogs to roam outside villagers’ homes. From above, they flash bright lights onto the houses, blare music and sing loudly.
Israeli forces carry out raids, arrests across the West Bank
Local media say the raids took place in the following locations in the occupied West Bank:
- The city of Qalqilya, where Israeli snipers have been deployed on rooftops
- The town of al-Khader, south of Bethlehem
- The town of Beit Furik, east of Nablus
- The town of Surif, north of Hebron
- The town of Qabalan, south of Nablus, where a student has been arrested
- The town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, where a man has been arrested
- The town of Deir Abu Daif, east of Jenin, where several people were arrested.
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